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War Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
- During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a…
- To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice…
- For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
- If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
- The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
- Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
- War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is…
- Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men…
- When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
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